Manufacturing & Distribution

Accelerating Product Innovation

Understanding Unique Challenges

Today's manufacturing and distribution industry faces numerous challenges that impact strategic initiatives: global competition, regional expansion, mergers and acquisitions, complex supply chains, and new business models…to name a few. To excel in this environment, manufacturers must find innovative ways to improve operations and capture opportunities.

For example, manufacturing and distribution companies must strike a balance among several important functions to compete successfully. As the lines between supplier, manufacturer and customer blur, companies must form partnerships to continually improve the manufacturing process. At the same time, they need to accelerate product innovation. And, manufacturers need to leverage resources while making sure the right capability gets to where it's needed on time.

OneNeck understands the time, cost and quality pressures manufacturers and distributors face. We've worked across industry sectors including composite materials, plastic products, dental office equipment, textiles, office supplies, pumps and valves, fittings, technology components, mobile computing accessories, office furniture, adhesives and laminates, decking material, and more. We use the knowledge and experience gained to improve each manufacturing customer's IT operations.

Some specific benefits to OneNeck manufacturing and distribution customers include:

• Freedom to focus on core competencies
• Cost savings that increase returns on technology investments
• Greater ability to respond to changing markets
• More informed decision-making through objective data
• Efficient management of suppliers
• Effective enterprise resource planning
• Consistently reliable IT delivery for improved productivity and customer service
• More successful IT initiatives through proven methodologies and best practices
• Risk mitigation through business continuity and disaster recovery services

Providing Tailored Solutions

Drawing from well-rounded manufacturing and distribution experience, OneNeck delivers industry-specific outsourcing and IT infrastructure services including enterprise application hosting, remote managed services and IT infrastructure services. In addition, we provide transition and project services that include data center transitions, project estimating, planning and execution.

In every case, we align technology with your business strategies. With a "configure-to-order" philosophy, we tailor every solution to the specific needs of our customer, regardless of the ERP application on which their IT environment is running.

OneNeck’s IT infrastructure services help manufacturing and distribution customers get the most from their IT environment. We provide 24/7 support of complex Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. We configure solutions to minimize the need for multiple systems, streamline production, minimize inventory-carrying costs, configure complex products, and manage your personnel, material, and data processing more effectively.

Our ERP capabilities include:

• Baan – We are the largest Baan outsourcer in the world. We currently host and support all versions of Baan on a variety of databases. Our Baan resources and skills concentration is second only to Infor itself.
• Microsoft Dynamics AX– We are one of the first outsourcers to offer an end-to-end Axapta hosting solution. We currently manage the largest hosted Dynamics AX environment in North America and staff the "hard to find" MBS certified Dynamics AX experts.
• Oracle eBusiness Suite – We provide end-to-end Oracle 11i/12 hosting, administration, technical, and functional support. We staff certified, world-class Apps DBAs and technical resources.
• Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne and JDE World – OneNeck is one of the top independent JDE hosting and management firms in North America. We have more than 50 years of combined AS 400 experience and staff the "impossible to find" CNC resources.

Some specific IT services we provide include application development, EDI e-commerce transaction administration, application integration, application functional support, application administration, database administration, operating system administration, WAN/LAN management, desktop and device management, infrastructure management, IT security administration, high availability/disaster recovery solutions and additional services as needed. Our world-class operations centers deliver highly reliable, secure and cost-effective IT infrastructure solutions.

If you're a manufacturer interested in doing more and spending less on your IT infrastructure, contact us today.

Manufacturing & Distribution Customer Spotlight

Spyder Active Sports

Spyder Active Sports is the largest ski-specialty brand in the world. The company is renowned for integrating high-tech fabrics, fashion and functionality. It prides itself on a relentless commitment to creating the ultimate performance experience for athletes and focuses on every detail in engineering superior skiwear.

Spyder was in an unsatisfactory relationship with its previous IT outsourcing vendor. This vendor was unresponsive to Spyder's business needs and lacked a strong customer focus. Spyder was looking for a new partner who would support the company's business strategies through a collaborative partnership.

According to Spyder's CIO, Kevin Smith, "We chose OneNeck because of their demonstrated success across various industries, technologies and software applications. During our vendor investigations, we discovered OneNeck's customer references were excellent. Once we narrowed down the list of potential service providers based on technical expertise, OneNeck's customer satisfaction ratings differentiated them from their competitors. Outsourcing our technology operations has allowed Spyder to focus more of its resources on driving growth in our core business."

To learn more about Spyder Active Sports and OneNeck outsourcing and IT infrastructure services, click here.

Representing Manufacturing & Distribution Customers

OneNeck has expertise and experience managing mission-critical applications and systems for manufacturing customers and distribution nationwide, including:

• A-dec (dental office furniture/equipment)
• Adept Technology (intelligent robotics systems)
• AxleTech (axles and brakes)
• Coldmatic (refrigeration cases)
• Constar (plastic containers)
• Cytec (composite & adhesive materials)
• Duro (fabric & textile materials)
• Esselte (office supplies)
• Flowserve (pumps, valves, seals)
• Hackney-Ladish (fitting producers)
• Herman Miller (office furniture)
• Inilex (intelligent telemetry solutions)
• Isolatek International (life safety materials)
• Metso Paper (pulp & paper)
• Silver Spring Networks (Smart Grid networking infrastructure)
• Spyder Active Sports (ski wear)
• SRC(technology components)
• Targus (mobile computing accessories)
• Thompson (photo albums)
• Trend Technologies (metal & plastic products)
• Trex (decking materials)
• Xyron (adhesives & laminates)

Related Information

Manufacturing & Distribution Customer Case Studies:

• Building Trust through Incremental Outsourcing: A-dec Creates Business Value by Strategically Expanding Outsourcing Services
• Technology Vendors Work Together to Give A-dec Full Scale Technology Solutions
• Spyder Active Sports and OneNeck IT Services: Pushing the Limits of High Performance
• Going Global:  45 Worldwide Offices and Multiple Disparate Systems are Integrated to Position Leading Mobile Computing Accessories Supplier as a World-Class Operation
• Ensuring "The Power of Knowing" Round-the-Clock: Inilex Relies on OneNeck's Managed Services to Boost Network Performance

Manufacturing & Distribution Customer News:

• OneNeck Selected By Flowserve To Host And Manage Data Center Operations And Oracle Applications
• OneNeck Hosts and Manages Baan Environment for Adept Technology
• OneNeck Hosts and Manages Oracle eBusiness Suite R12 for Silver Spring Networks
• OneNeck Awarded Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Hosting and Managed Services Contract by Isolatek
• OneNeck announces contract extension with Cytec Engineered Materials, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cytec Industries Inc.
• Esselte Corporation Selects OneNeck to Host its North American Dynamics AX User Environment
• OneNeck Wins Outsourcing Contract with Coldmatic Products International
• OneNeck Earns Contract Extension with Duro Textiles
• Newly Formed Hackney Ladish, Inc. Enters into BPCS ERP Outsourcing Agreement with OneNeck IT Services
• OneNeck IT Services and Targus Group International Announce Contract Extension
• OneNeck IT Services Announces Outsourcing Partnership with Constar
• Spyder Active Sports Awards OneNeck IT Services J.D. Edwards Managed Services Contract
• Thompson Products Selects OneNeck To Implement And Manage New PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne Environment
• Metso Paper Renews Contract with OneNeck
• OneNeck IT Services Secures IT Services Contract With MOR PPM, Inc. (PPM)
• OneNeck IT Services, Corporation Announces Major Enterprise Systems Outsourcing Contract With Xyron Inc.
• OneNeck IT Services Expands its Relationship with A-dec, Incorporated Through Contract Extension
• OneNeck IT Services Announces Transition Completion At SRC Devices, Incorporated
• OneNeck IT Services Announces Major Outsourcing Agreement with Trend Technologies Inc.
• OneNeck IT Services Announces Major Enterprise Resource Planning Outsourcing Contract to Support Herman Miller Dealers

Events:

• OneNeck Web Seminars

Contact OneNeck today for more information about IT solutions for Manufacturing & Distribution companies, or to learn about infrastructure services, managed hosting, hosted application management and cloud services for your industry.